eldur og ís

from eighteen seconds before sunrise

"last weekend at the benicassim festival appearance in spain, orri’s fantastic crown went missing. if you have any information that would lead to the crown being returned to the band then please contact us. a reward is offered to whomever helps get it back."

 

Such a shame, too.  It's so much more colorful than those crap ones from Burger King.

We [Socialists] are accused of wanting to suppress liberty! But where is this liberty of which they boast? Is the worker free not to go to work at the factory for the profit of the capitalist? Is the employee free not to go to work at the specified time? Is the doctor free not to attend to the patients who give him his living? Is the capitalist himself free from not exploiting the workers if he wishes to make profit and “keep up to his position”? Is the capitalist press free to refrain from lying if it still wants to get advertisements? Is the government free to stop using troops against strikers, if it does not want to be thrown out by the capitalists who keep it in power? Are the troops free not to move against the strikers? Is the small merchant free to prevent his ruin at the hands of the big merchants? Is the peasant, borne down by taxes and the money lender, free to leave the land from which he draws his bread?

True liberty does not exist where property is not common property where man is the slave of man, where the capitalist state has control of our lives and our wealth. Liberty in our society is an empty word, a word without meaning, a lie.

-Charles Rappoport, Précis du Communisme, 1928

 

The Socialist Party is fighting for every possible improvement in working-class people's lives, but we recognise that under this profit-hungry capitalist system, we will always face a constant struggle to defend our living conditions.

That is why we are fighting for socialist change.

We don't want the kind of regimes that existed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe which, while they were based on a planned economy, were completely undemocratic.

Socialism can only work with the fullest democracy.

We want real socialism – a democratic society and economy run to meet the needs of all instead of the profits of a few.

Based on co-operation and equality, socialism would lay the basis for an end to poverty and all forms of discrimination and oppression.

A socialist society would put people's needs and interests, immediate and long-term, before profit.

There are no countries where this takes place today.

-UK Socialist Party, 2007

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There is no indoctrination.  There is no left-wing plot.  The huge majority of socialists are NOT Nazis, facists, or even commies. 
It is about ending the corruption and inequality caused by capitalism.  It is not about taking anything away (that you probably didn't actually need in the first place).  It is about putting the welfare of the people first, above all - not your greedy and corrupt corporations, not your money-making wars, and not about your unequal class system and your "buy, buy, buy" material life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A little bonus...same artist, same title, totally different songs

Are you part of the future
Part of the plan?
Are you willing and able
To do what you can?
Are you part of the problem
Or part of the band?
Are you willing to draw
A line in the sand?
Are you true to your friends
Loyal to your brand?
Are you smoking for China
Iraq or Japan?
Are you searching for something
You don't understand?
Do you still hold ambitions
Of being a man?

Are you ready to lIve?
Are you ready to die?
Are you ready to live?
Are you ready to die?

Are you sickening for something?
Feeling unwell?
Are you drawn to corruption
In love with its smell?
Are you keeping a secret
Got something to tell?
Are you fighting for reason
Under its spell?
Are you dreaming of Heaven
Living in Hell?
Are you preaching for Jesus
For Apple or Dell?
Are you doomed to succeed
Are you happy to fail?
Are you facing extinction
The end of the trail?

Top Artists this Week (see more)

6 Jul 2008 – 13 Jul 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doin' it and doin' it and doin' it well...

Top Artists this Week (see more)

29 Jun 2008 – 6 Jul 2008